The simplicity of ingredients would amaze even the three wyrd sisters, as would the resultant mixture's power and versatility: start with a little BSD "ports" and a smidgen of Gentoo's "emerge," and then blend in a pinch of Linux-from-scratch and a healthy dollop of crosstool. Upon forging the edaphic build environment known as GAR, erect a perfect educational storm, conjured from message-passing environments, visualization tools, profiling utilities, compilers, debuggers, high-performance file system support, and scripts that can automate tasks such as the networking of distributed systems. Suddenly, this illusion of computers, wires, and vibrant images coalesces into a pocket-sized mini-CD, which, upon bootup, transforms into a full-fledged parallel computing environment that can run in system memory without installation or modification to the system's hard drive. What we have here is a comprehensive framework for high-performance computing education, and that, my friends, is the opposite of a failure to communicate. This article will elaborate on what lies under the BCCD hood, some uses of the BCCD, and future directions.